Hezbollah has condemned direct negotiations between Lebanese officials and Israel, saying the government is yielding to US pressure and undermining Lebanon's sovereignty, while warning that the talks amount to submission to Israeli demands.

Israeli minister of military affairs says Israeli troops would remain in southern Lebanon with full freedom to act despite a ceasefire with Hezbollah.

For the displaced people of South Lebanon, returning to the olive groves and rubble of their homes is not merely a homecoming, but an act of defiance, a refusal to surrender a homeland that wars have ravaged but never erased from the collective memory of those who belong to it.

Banners expressing gratitude to Iran have been installed along a main road leading to Beirut’s airport.

An Israeli soldier has been killed, and 13 others sustained injuries in an overnight operation in southern Lebanon.

At least 29 people have been killed in the new wave of Israeli attacks across Lebanon.

Hezbollah says its fighters are fully prepared to make any sacrifice necessary to defend Lebanon.